Re: [PLUG] ASCII writer?

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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Okay!  I knew this was the place to ask.

banner, figlet, toilet... all good.

Thank you all.

Eric

On 12/09/2010 07:19 PM, bergman@merctech.com wrote:
> The pithy ruminations from "Benjamin Folk Jr." <ben.folk@comcast.net> on "Re: [PLUG] ASCII writer?" were:
> 
> => "banner" at the command prompt...
> 
> 
> Yep.
> 
> 
> => 
> => It will prompt you for a message
> 
> Or accept input on the command line, as in:
> 
> 	banner TEST
> 
> to produce:
> 
>   #######  #######   #####   #######  
>      #     #        #     #     #     
>      #     #        #           #     
>      #     #####     #####      #     
>      #     #              #     #     
>      #     #        #     #     #     
>      #     #######   #####      #     
> 
> 
> 
> I wrote a perl script that will take banner(1) output and rotate it 90 degrees...with multiple rotations you can get:
> 
>                          
>      #      #####   #######     #   
>      #     #     #        #     #   
>      #     #              #     #   
>      #      #####     #####     #   
>      #           #        #     #   
>      #     #     #        #     #   
>   #######   #####   #######  #######
>                                     
> 
> which well really make the night-shift print operator think that there's a problem with the line printer. :)
> 
> 
> Let me know if you want a copy.
> 
> Mark
> 
> => 
> => 
> => Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> Does anybody know of a program that outputs letters in ASCII art?
> 
> For example, if I input TEST I want something like this:
> 
> TTTTTTTTT   EEEEEEEEE    SSSSSS     TTTTTTTTT
>    TT       EE          SS    SS       TT
>    TT       EE           SS            TT
>    TT       EEEEEE         SSSS        TT
>    TT       EE                 SS      TT
>    TT       EE          SS    SS       TT
>    TT       EEEEEEEEE    SSSSSS        TT
> 
> I know it's been done in the past - those old print job banner pages for
> example.  I just cannot find a perl/python/ruby/whatever version and don't have
> time to write one myself.  At least not THIS month!
> 
> Eric
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